The administration of a penal colony in Russia's Urals claims they don’t have the Ukrainian.

Photo by Anton Naumliuk

A political prisoner from Ukraine, film director Oleh Sentsov has disappeared from Penal Colony No. 8 in the city of Labytnangi in the Urals despite the fact that he is supposed to be held in this penitentiary facility, as reported by RosUznik human rights organization.

"On Sunday, we sent a number of letters to Oleh Sentsov. Today a response came from Labytnangi. Where is Oleh Sentsov?" the organization says.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Sentsov together with Oleksandr Kolchenko was detained by Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea in May 2014 on charges of organizing terrorist attacks on the peninsula.

In August 2015, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony. Kolchenko was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Both men pleaded not guilty.

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